No upgrades on any Kyla routine I saw but she has upgrades ready. I have no clue why she isn’t using them but with Marta in charge you can guess. Off to watch the rest
Gymnastike also has coverage. Here is an interview with Kyla.
No upgrades on any Kyla routine I saw but she has upgrades ready. I have no clue why she isn’t using them but with Marta in charge you can guess. Off to watch the rest
Gymnastike also has coverage. Here is an interview with Kyla.
February 28, 2013 at 10:38 pm |
apperently kyla isn’t showing upgrades because her heel injury has not been allowing her to train at that level
February 28, 2013 at 10:40 pm |
She has been training the upgrades all along so she has them but if not showing them here.
February 28, 2013 at 11:25 pm |
Examiner made the point that she is fine, just not able to show the numbers of repetitions needed. She thinks Kyla will still only do beam. I also think her height has been a problem. I’m trying to work out how tall she is, I’d give her a good 5’4 anyway.
Simone has lots of upgrades, and room for more. So powerful though I hope she can improve some of her leaps and her feet. A layout on beam, double cossack turn, full in beam dismount, piked tkachev to pak, maloney, another new release and double double on floor. Katelyn has gotten her DTY back though and now has a dance series on beam so she will be relatively tough to beat. It depends, I know Simone has 6.3 on vault and Katelyn has 7.2 beam and 5.8 vault…it’s not enough to really know.
I hope Kyla does more than one event if she’s up for it. Bars and beam would be great. Katelyn does look ‘on’ but her tumbling was sloppy, her vault was okay but her chest was down and her bars are riddled with little errors. Her beam is great though apart from slowish connections and the piked layout full. Simone’s layout actually isn’t brilliant either, she should be able to get it higher than that- Chinese style.
February 28, 2013 at 11:53 pm |
And after rewatching the part of the first podium training that I missed- a 1 and a half into double pike, and what looks like a 3.5 are in the works. Both landed perfectly. Also in her interview she said she is training TTY’s! I knew she was capable but it’s still amazinnggg to hear.
February 28, 2013 at 11:26 pm |
I love Kyla but she really needs to start laying off the “ums.” It’s kind of a crack-up but if she’s doing that when she’s 20 I’ll be a little worried for her sake!
I have to wonder – I know she’s got a bruised heel but she was podium training all events so it’s not “to the point” where further injury is an issue I would assume – since if it were, she wouldn’t be there. I feel like they headlined her in the meet to draw ticket sales knowing they would eventually replace her. I still don’t buy the whole “bruised heel” as a sole reason for replacing her. Something smells fishy there, like I’ve said before. I have a feeling that the “camp” held was really an internal competition for two spots to compete at the American Cup (not just the 1 spot).
I don’t know why she wouldn’t show the upgrades if she’s been training them but whatever. Marta will be Marta.
Does anyone know if Kyla can throw an amanar around still? I wonder that given her growth spurt.
February 28, 2013 at 11:31 pm |
Still bummed that she’s not competing, but I’m glad to hear she’s going to the meets in Jesolo and Germany, unless I misunderstood the interview and those teams haven’t been decided yet.
But I can’t help but notice she’s a little shaky on beam. I wonder if that’s due to her heel or she’s still getting used to her height.
March 1, 2013 at 12:00 am |
I’m wondering if Simone can win? Someone just coded her beam as 6.5. Katelyn’s is already known to be 7.2, so 0.7 advantage..after vault this is lessened to 0.2 advantage. Simone will thrash Katelyn’s difficulty on floor, so she will have the advantage after 3 rotations (if they do bars last in my hypothetical rotation order). I would think bars would be equal enough, with Simone probably having the upper hand. Katelyn will get things credited that shouldn’t be but still face heavier deductions there than Simone.
March 1, 2013 at 12:05 am |
Simone will have issues getting credited on beam and so will Kaitlyn is the judges do their jobs.
I say Kaitlyn wins big because usa-gymnastics will have nothing less.
March 1, 2013 at 12:10 am
At least Marta was watching Kyla on bars, and said good… Im still going to say shes closer to 5’6″
March 1, 2013 at 12:54 am
I agree with you, I’m thinking 5’6 too.
March 1, 2013 at 1:18 am
I think Katelyn will win as long as she doesn’t have a major mistake (fall) on an apparatus. They will deduct Simone for form issues and missed connections but Katelyn will get credit for iffy connections.
I have yet to see a competition done in the last couple years where the judges were all doing their jobs.
Or treating each gymnast without bias.
March 1, 2013 at 1:21 am
LOL, Yes well I know judges suck. Pretty much everyone sucks for me today
March 1, 2013 at 1:35 am
Overscored Ohashi for the win. lol.
March 1, 2013 at 7:43 pm
I’m guessing Kyla is somewhere between 5’4” and 5’5”. The only reason I’m not saying taller is because when I saw Ohashi up close at the WOGA Classic I could not believe how short she is. Much shorter than most of the other gymnasts around her even though many were juniors and younger. I’d say 4’6” is a stretch. She may actually be a little shorter. So I think Kyla looks even taller than she really is when she is next to Ohashi. No doubt though than Kyla has grown unbelievably in the past year.
March 1, 2013 at 8:08 pm
That doesn’t bode well for Ohashi if she’s that short. She’s going to have to go through a major growth spurt at some point…that could be disastrous on her vaults.
March 1, 2013 at 1:08 am |
I don’t understand why USA gymnastics always has the gymnasts wearing pink.
I hate pink.
March 1, 2013 at 1:13 am |
I agree. Pink sucks
March 1, 2013 at 1:14 am
Americans have vulgar taste, lol.
March 1, 2013 at 1:18 am |
I’m sick of the pink. Change the colors this quad. I was getting hopeful even at the Olympics when the girls were wearing purple.
I mean – what’s SO BAD about red, white, and blue? Seriously? It’s the friggin AMERICAN cup.
March 1, 2013 at 1:19 am
Red, White and Blue?
Everything. lol
March 1, 2013 at 1:34 am |
They wore a lovely one the colour of the Olympic podium training one for the second pt session. There is hope..
March 1, 2013 at 1:36 am
Fabulous beam. No other event is outstanding, decent all arounder but I think she will be hopelessly outclassed in an internal aa when there are more seniors. She will have to specialise to stay revelant I think.
March 1, 2013 at 1:36 am |
they wore purple in the second podium training…
March 1, 2013 at 10:29 am |
They wear pin because America’s colors are …. oh wait, pink has absolutely nothing to do with the USA.
I’m so over the pink too.
March 1, 2013 at 1:11 am |
Yay Biles is going to become a favourite of mine. I love Full-In dismounts off beam.
Katelyn Ohashi looks to be one of those gymnasts I just do not get rather like Khourkina or Liukin.
March 1, 2013 at 8:39 pm |
I personally never understood the craze of Khorkina or Liukin but I like Katelyn’s form and style more than the other two.
March 1, 2013 at 8:42 pm
Katelyn is a much better gymnast than Nastia but Katelyn is not the issue, the judges are. If they are going to try and cheat for her I am going to have an issue.
A a junior they tried to fix two National titles for her, mistake after mistake was ignored. It will be worse as a senior.
If Katelyn starts acting like Nastia it might get mean but so far she seems normal.
March 1, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Agreed. Hopefully that will change. I want Katelyn to do well fairly. I like her so far. Personality and gymnastics wise. As for full in dismounts I don’t like sloppy tucking dismounts (i.e. Nastia on bars, ewww) but if Simone has nice form like Shannon or Shawn it will look good.
March 1, 2013 at 8:01 am |
im finding some of the stretching/prepping for podium training fascinating. i just realised i really had no idea how they warmed up lol.
March 1, 2013 at 2:57 pm |
Yeah, it’s actually pretty neat that all optional level gymnasts learn the same warm up, and can always just jump right in with a group and know what to do.
March 1, 2013 at 8:24 am |
If Kyla does a beam exhibition I hope she at least shows some of her beam upgrades.
March 1, 2013 at 4:24 pm |
Remember how at the us classics and nationals in 2011 chellsie memmel warmed up alone and ate on the competition floor? I so miss that. I hope wieber does it next year.
March 1, 2013 at 9:10 pm |
Just saw the floor exercises for the second part of podium training – the purple leos.
I like Ohashi’s music actually. I like the fact she doesn’t take long pauses in the corners, and her dance elements are nice. She is still coming along on her tumbling though – seems she under-rotates a bit on the double pike.
Simone’s floor was a bit frantic for me; a lot of awkward dance elements and I didn’t really understand the flow but man can she tumble. It’s like she just runs from one tumbling element to another and almost gains energy as she progresses through each run. I was almost losing my breath just trying to keep up with her!
Kyla…seems like she’s keeping her floor from last year but she didn’t even bother to do any of her tumbling sequences (I know she has a heel thing, but she said in an interview “it’s not that bad” and it more or less limited her training up to the event, which was the reason they pulled her out). BTW, I’m now convinced more than ever they knew Kyla would not be doing this meet for at least 6 weeks prior.
I’m wondering if floor is really where her growth spurt is killing her. She still did a nice DTY but by looking at it I couldn’t tell if she was still capable of pulling another half twist around.She is super tall; her legs go on forever.
March 1, 2013 at 9:20 pm |
There is a new floor rule. You can’t stand in the corner and pause before a tumbling pass.
March 1, 2013 at 9:25 pm
I’m a fan of that rule!
March 1, 2013 at 9:55 pm
Until someone doesn’t have enough energy and falls on their head I like it too:)
March 1, 2013 at 10:17 pm
Haha, well they can catch their breath doing some stupid dance pose/move – really all it takes is a “smart” choreographer…